A yellowcake production plant near the central Iranian city of Yazd was targeted in an airstrike a short while ago, Iranian media reports. The Fars news agency cites the Atomic Energy Organization of ...

President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to remove Iran’s "Nuclear ‘Dust" as part of an effort to ensure the nation never possesses a nuclear weapon. A day earlier, Trump told reporters at the White ...

The enrichment process is primarily accomplished via gas centrifuges, Diaz-Maurin explains: A gas that contains uranium is fed into a cascade of spinning centrifuges. The slightly heavier uranium-238 ...

For decades, researchers have known that homing pigeons can return to their loft from ...

A handful of U.S. small modular reactor developers are betting that Low Enriched Uranium Plus nuclear fuel will allow them to avoid a potential supply crunch for more advanced fuels. March 24 - HALEU ...

VIENNA (AP) — Should the U.S. decide to send in military forces to secure Iran’s uranium stockpile, it would be a complex, risky and lengthy operation, fraught with radiation and chemical dangers, ...

One critical step of the nuclear fuel chain - uranium enrichment - has long been a domestic vulnerability for the United States. Traditional gas-centrifuge technology has been the proven workhorse for ...

Uranium is a naturally occurring silvery-white radioactive element which has the atomic number of 92 and chemical symbol U in the periodic table. Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a ...

ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL) — BWX Technologies (BWXT) is taking the next step toward plans to produce highly enriched uranium (HEU) for the first time next door to its Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) facility in ...

BWX Technologies (BWXT) said Tuesday it has notified the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of plans to apply for a uranium enrichment license for a new facility to be built adjacent to its Nuclear ...